Layers Upon Layers: Mixed Media Art

September 26th, 2007

Adorable plastic bag jewelry by Anna Roebuck

Anna’s site, Bags 2 Riches, claims to create “desirable objects from everyday waste”! I think she’s managed quite nicely, too.
Aren’t these great?

From Anna’s website:

Contemporary designs individually created using recycled plastics and other found elements. All of the work is created using a technique that I have developed over the last 5 years, which […]

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September 6th, 2007

Call for entries: Belle Armoire Jewelry

Belle Armoire Jewelry, published by Stampington, is now a quarterly magazine. The deadline for submissions for the next issue is October 15, 2007, and it is scheduled to be out on the newstands in March 2008. From the website: If you’d like to share your inspiration and detailed how-to instruction for creating beautiful jewelry […]

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September 4th, 2007

Jewelry tutorials

I not only made a lot of new jewelry this summer, but I also added quite a few new tutorials to my jewelry blog, Bead Arts.
Tags: bead-art, beading, jewelry, Mixed Media, tutorials

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July 31st, 2007

Making a painted foil pin

Here’s a fast and easy project you can do with left overs from the painted foil backgrounds that you’ve made. Haven’t made any yet? Well go ahead…here are the instructions…I’ll wait!

Cut out pieces of painted foil to use in your pin. Cut one larger one that will be the background, and as many smaller pieces […]

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June 15th, 2007

Some of my jewelry has come home!

Several pieces of mixed media jewelry that I sent off for photographing by one of the magazines I write for regularly have come home…yay! It’s always a bit of a relief to have them back, so that I can get on with the next item of business, which is getting rid of them permanently! That’s […]

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May 14th, 2007

The ugliest necklace on the planet?

I’m not going to post a picture of it here, because some folks are just not going to want to see it! I entered the Ugly Necklace Contest this year, and was thrilled to be named as a semi-finalist! Yes, I made the necklace as hideously ugly as I possibly could…on purpose. […]

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February 15th, 2007

Two more calls for entries from Stampington

Stampington is the company that produces Belle Armoire Magazine, and there are two calls that I need to tell you about. The first is a simple challenge that will be published in the regular September/October issue of Belle Armoire. The challenge is called “Belt It Out”, based on the creative article written by Barbara Matthiessen […]

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January 3rd, 2007

Barbie-lovers beware!

Welcome to Wacked-Out Wednesday!
Margaux Lange’s jewelry is like no other. You might not want to share this site with your four year old daughter!

Tags: jewelry, Mixed Media, Wearable Art

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